: About Me

I am a 55 yr. old widow, mother of three grown kids plus two more step kids who are adults. I have 8 grandkids, and a menagerie of dogs and cats. I live in rural southern Colorado and drive a school bus during the school year because I enjoy it, and I can always use money. (smile) I am the director of a small family preservation collaborative dedicated to helping families at risk of separation to stay together. Ultimately, we believe that if a dysfunction can be improved, kids are best served by making every effort to keep them in their own families, and preferably with their own parents. That isn't always possible, and in that case, we work to be an advocate for the child. I've been writing since I was a 6 yr. old and carrying a political soap box. No one will ever describe me as a wall flower.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Death of a spouse

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Ten Years After I have learned that many people who have survived some sort of huge trauma in their lives are plagued with nightmares and "flashbacks" of that event, sometimes forever thereafter. In some perverse way, that was reassuring to me. In early 1998, the solid flooring of my life literally fell away and left me hanging without a safety line. Now, ten years later, I can see that for at least a year after, I was functionally insane. At the time, reading those articles and realizing that other people suffered those nightmares and flashbacks somehow convinced me that I was okay. I was...

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